Be kind, Rewind...

Moving gives you the distance to take stock of things. Your friends are there but not within reach of an easy coffee each week. You have to rewind on your own and continue "to do what you love more than you love yourself" (thank you Elizabeth Gilbert).  

I have been thinking a lot about social media and how to best use it to learn and to connect and to this end, I have been talking to people about blogs and listening to podcasts about blogs and reading and reading and reading about blogs. All suggest that your blog is the engine of your work as a(n) _______. It is a place to share the content behind who you are and what you are interested in with anyone who will listen.

So....wait for it...

The blog is back and I am plan to post every two weeks on a Friday. I will stop posting on my crafty blog, lunulecraft.blogspot.com and consolidate content with www.lunule.com/lunuleblog--There is a lot of overlap anyway. 


My first post on May 1st will be about a floor installation that I am working on. I will tap into Sol Lewitt and 70's decorating magazines. 


Let me know what you think, send your inspirations and ideas. By following, you can let me know that you like what you are seeing and reading..

Happy Spring!

Rafaël Rozendaal

My friend Lauren emailed me these cool little abstract animations.

slow empty

looking at something

cold void

You can see more of Rafaël's videos here. Don't forget to move your cursor over the image. Be careful if you are optically sensitive. Some can be a bit headachy. 

Check out his BYOB. I LOVE this idea!

Here is the blurb from his site: 

"BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) is a series of one-night-exhibitions hosting artists

and their projectors.

Anyone can make a BYOB exhibition. It’s very simple:

- find a space
- invite many artists
- ask them to bring their projectors

Please read the FAQ if you want to organize your own BYOB."

Rafaël Rozendaal, 2010 - 2013

Let me know if you decide to organize one. Better get started on some animations!

today's inspiration

Gertrud Goldschmidt

Alexander MacQueen

Yayoi Kusama

Nieuwhoff, C 1974, Contemporary Lace Making, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, pg 63

Cy Twombly

not sure how they will figure into the final work but that is the fun.

more drawings getting closer I think

I always have a pit in my stomach when I work.

The stress spurs me on when I think that I can't do it, make it, finish it and my pride keeps me on track.
Here are some drawings from yesterday. I think the actual pink that I will use is a bit lighter but no less offensive. I am going for a colour that I heard about on a Science Friday interview with Adam Alter author of Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave called affectionately "drunk tank pink" because it is supposed to have a (short term) calming effect on people and was used in jails and locker rooms to calm prisoners and football players.

Although it seems as if it wouldn't work with the wood, I think that it does.

I am madly working on my drawings for my entry in GrowOp:Exploring Landscape and Place at the Gladstone Hotel. My work will be on the historic glass elevator in the hotel entrance from April 25-28. I had planned to run the work up to the 4th floor but may only focus on the ground to the second floor where the show will mostly take place.

Colours: White and Drunk Tank Pink

title: tensile

subject: spider webs the ultimate drawing.


thinking about: strings, chaos, trapping beauty, scratchitti, strong and fragile at once, calming

modern florals

Black Olive Studio

by jo rutter

Just found these on Pinterest and thought it would be interesting to follow on a historic floral post with a contemporary floral post. Jo Rutter's design reminds me of Josef Frank:

300 Years of Floral Patterns

I check twitter infrequently but when I do, I always discover something that makes me think. For some reason, I cannot get this particular article about a BBC newsreader, John Nicholson who renovated his home in Spitalfields. He removed each layer of wallpaper, leaf by leaf until he had a historical collection of the house in wallpaper from 1690 to 1960. The layers of the wallpaper were described in the Spitalfields Life article as fragile as butterfly wings and the pictures are amazing. I am not sure whether I am more touched by the care of house, the fragility of the layers of wallpaper, or that floral patterns have been universally popular since the 1690's.

Here is the link and some photos. Enjoy:

The tape rides again! The remaining rolls of my limited edition Colouring Tape from DesignBoom MartToronto at IDS are now available at distill gallery in Toronto!

Both are boxed sets. The Minimalist includes one black Sharpie marker and the Creative Sweet includes 2 rolls of tape, 3 Sharpie Markers, and a tube cap to make a Pen Holder (or iPhone speaker stand!). If you are in Toronto, pop into Distill.

For more ideas on how to use the tape, make sure to check out my tumblr on tape art and the world of adhesive papers.

oblique strategies